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AWS Distinguished Engineer James Hamilton kicked off a re:Invent keynote by pulling back the covers on Amazon’s cloud, and giving a behind-the-scenes look at the company’s global scale, internal architecture and custom-made servers...

Information archiving is a mature market category, yet it remains misunderstood by many - both within IT and across business units. Some are convinced that is it needed only by regulated organizations, while others believe it to be

Many cloud storage options are available to businesses and consumers today, but one size does not fit all. This cloud storage guide includes tips to help you get started.

While most organizations have invested in improving the performance and resiliency of their on-premise Global Load Balancing (GLB) capabilities, very few organizations are able to achieve the level of performance and high availability

We celebrate 18 great components we couldn't live without, from fast SSDs to a graphics card that's just right, and even the perfect toolkit.

Microservices and container-based applications are becoming ever more popular. Why? And what does the emergence of these trends mean for your shop? This primer explains what microservices are, why your app-dev teams want to use them...

OwnBackup is making a business out of what vendors should (arguably) do: secure and automated daily backups of SaaS and PaaS data.

This white paper reviews DNS Denial of Service attack concepts and mitigation strategies. You will learn: The critical role DNS plays in the performance of your online business, common types of DDoS attacks, best practices to protect

Data from cloud apps is increasing the need for storage. And with archiving as a necessity, the tape drive era is here to stay.

There are big changes afoot for Google Cloud Platform's storage offerings. On Thursday, the company announced a complete overhaul of the storage options available to customers, complete with new storage tiers and reduced pricing.

For years there’s been talk about what the adoption of public cloud and the advent of application containers would mean for VMware. The company is taking these innovations head on, announcing support for them in the latest updates of...

Tape storage has been declared dead so many times that it has become a trope in technology journalism. The truth is more complicated and is ultimately less about tape’s demise than it is about the steady encroachment of cloud services....

Moving large amounts of data into cloud storage can be surprisingly difficult. Read this eBook and learn how Signiant Flight can overcome IP network bottlenecks and accelerate the transfer of data into and out of Amazon S3 or Azure.

The cloud killed the mainframe? I'm not so sure. Let's take a look at what the next decade has in store for big iron.

LinkedIn has grown over the past 13 years from a single Java app with a web server into a $26.2 billion acquisition target by Microsoft. In that time, LinkedIn’s infrastructure and engineering had to grow with the company. Here’s how...